JustWonders wrote:My point is that there are and have been these types of abuses in every war.
I agree with that, precisely the reason I was against any armed invasion.
Leut. Calley and the Abu Ghraib perps had the bad fortune to be uncovered. The GI who shot the wounded man, he was filmed. Bad for him. How many others, away from the camera lens? Reason says, plenty more.
That's why it causes such despair when chickenhawk politicians, who took care never to serve their country in the armed forces, send their young men off to fight, to do their best, and their worst, in places like this.